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Between the year 1986 and 1992, figures reveal that around 16,000 houses of Kashmiri Pandits were looted and burnt by the insurgency groups. Of these, 35% of the houses were that of Anantnag, 20% from Srinagar, 25% in Baramulla-Kupwara districts and 15% in Badgam and Pulwama districts respectively. With a shared ideology and agenda, to thrust a second partition on India and transforming the state of Jammu and Kashmir into an Islamic state, the Muslim terrorists lost no time in spotting their political and religious enemies in the Hindu minorities especially the Kashmiri Pandits. Many victims of this apparent ‘genocide’ were personalities with remarkable achievements in their respective domains. One such case was that of Manmohan Bachloo, resident of Qazihama in Baramulla.

 

 

Manmohan was a Postal assistant at Karnah in the Postal Department. He had come to his native town on a holiday when the news was passed on through accomplices to his Muslim killers who were waiting for his arrival at Baramulla. In fact, one of the killers was said to have been following him from Karnah only. When he reached home, one of the killers called him at his house and asked for company to a teashop in Baramulla town. Unsuspecting the intentions of an old friend whom he had known from childhood, Manmohan accompanied his Muslim friend. As soon as he entered the tea shop, other killers shot him dead with number of bullets. He died on the spot only. It is a classic case of disloyalty and betrayal practiced by the Muslim extremists in Kashmir.